Your post is a red herring. Stopping a citizen on the street is not how someone volunteers, defects, or makes the connection to spy, for China or any other country. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of the history of espionage would know this. You will speak to someone in the government, or the intelligence services. This guy worked in US intelligence. Do you really think he didn’t know, or could not find out who/where to hook up with Chinese intelligence officers?
The reality, is that since 2008, at least two US citizens (neither of Chinese ethnicity) managed to spy for China. Read up on Gregg William Bergersen and Benjamin Pierce Bishop. There have been quite a few more US citizens of Chinese ethnicity arrested and convicted of spying since 2008.
In other words, your post is nonsense.
“Love those chicom spy speculations. Want to be a chicom just try it. Not so easy. Even if you live in China, first you have to find a spy recruiter. I’ve been in Beijing for 3 years, haven’t met one yet. Then you gotta explain why you should help them with espionage and that’s if you get them to admit they’re a spy in the first place. Don’t believe me come to China and try it. Just imagine approaching ordinary Chinese and say how can you help me spy for China. They will laugh at you and then ask if you need a psychiatrist. Most Chinese don’t even care about politics. They’re more interested in earning money and shopping.”
To be clear, I don’t know if he is/was spying for the Chinese. My above post is that it can’t be ruled out, especially with such a specious argument.
Apparently some think he was working for the Chicoms.
I’m not saying there’s no spying in China, but bringing to your attention than the spy network is much more complicated than what it apears to be. There are so many fake James Bond wannabees in Beijing that if these folks really are spies than I’m afraid you got the inmates running the insane asylums. Many of these clowns are washed-up alcoholics who can’t keep a secret even if you put a gun to their heads. I would nickname these folks the drunken “gossip girls.”